Uncover the Ground-Truth Relations in Distant Supervision: A Neural Expectation-Maximization Framework (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for relation extraction assume that text is noisy, but its corresponding labels are clean. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that combines neural network and probabilistic modelling to denoise noisy relation labels. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves the current art in uncovering the ground-truth relation labels. |
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